Chapter 7
“What do you mean not yet?”The man wiped the sweat from his brow.“I’m finished. You hired me to build the thing. Now it’s built. I want to get paid, and I won’t get paid until I deliver it. So, you have to take it. I followed your schedule.”
“Calm down, McGinnis. There’s a slight complication on my end. I can’t get to you for another couple of days.”
The man swore. He wanted to rage at this asshole, but he also wanted to get paid. He had retirement plans. It wasn’t like he could sell this piece of shit device to anyone else.“I don’t like surprises,”he growled.
“No one likes surprises but sometimes shit happens.”
“Fine. How much longer?”
“A couple of days. Maybe a week,”the buyer said.
“No. You have two days, or I get rid of it.”He might not have much leverage, but he wasn’t keeping this thing around indefinitely. He’d rather live to retire without the money than sit around and wait while this asshole did God knows what. The stupid device could go off randomly. Yeah, no. Nothing was worth that risk.“Forty-eight hours and then I’m gone.”
“Fine.”There was a click and the line went dead.
The man put down the phone on the workbench and stared at the device. The bad feeling he’d had before had just increased a thousandfold. His stomach had gone into full revolt and his bowels loosened. He got up and made his way to the bathroom. If this didn’t happen in forty-eight hours he was taking off. He was done here. There was nothing to stay for. Nothing good could come from this. Forty-eight hours until his retirement. Until McGinnis’s retirement. He’d revert to his real name for his retirement or maybe just a new alias. Forty-eight hours. If he made it that long. The way this was going, he only gave himself fifty-fifty odds.